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        Well, I think I'm ready to get a 3d graphics card.  I'll be the first
in the store to get Nascar 2 when it hits, and I dabble with ICR2, so
the benefits would definitely be there.  
        Looking at the Sierra website however, I see that in the requiements
table, that it needs Win 95.  What will happen when I boot to DOS and
play my other DOS games?   Also, anyone with this card see any
difference with their non-optimized games, good or bad?
        Finally, what will it do to my other games?  I've read that it won't
do a single thing to non-optimized games and it will slow down
non-VESA 2.0 games.  But I do play GP2, Doom and lots and lots and
lots of Quake (are these VESA 2.0 games or not?).  The Screamin 3D
comes with the shareware version of Quake, and that's fine and dandy,
but does there exist a FULL version of Quake that is optimized?  And
how will my performance be affected with Doom, Quake, Descent 2 and
GP2 for now?  Right now I use a Hercules Stingray Pro, which I
consider a very decent card.
        Thanks in advance.

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It runs fine with DOS games.  It lacks Win3.1, WinNT, or OS/2 drivers
so that's why Win95 is a requirement.  Yes, you are correct about VGA
games, they will be very slow.  Most of these problem can be fixed with
a little utility that I have placed on my webpage that remaps the slow
Moed13 VGA (320x200) with the speedy VESA 320x240.  This however does
not work with ModeX (320x240) games like Doom.  You don't need the
Shareware version of Quake that comes with the card.  You can goto
Rendition's Quake page and download the latest VQuake executable, which
will work fine with the full version you already have.

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

I recently ugraded my video card to the screaming 3d.  It was the hardest
upgrade I have ever done!  It caused about 100 GPFs and I could not get it
set up.  When Win95 would detect new hardware it would cause a GPF and shut
down.  Going into device manager would cause a GPF as well.  I wont get
into what I finally had to do to get it to work, but I finally did.

Then I found out there was a problem with the card's BIOS and my system's
BIOS (which is Award v4.50).  Everything worked great in windows but
nothing worked at all in DOS.  One call to Sierra tech. support and they
had a patch emailed to me.  After installing the card's BIOS patch
everything worked great.

The card has 2D acceleration so everything that I have including Doom,
Nascar, etc. works at least as well as it did before.  I think they
probably work even better because this card has twice the ram as my old one
did.  I upgraded from a ATI Mach 64 with 2 megs.

Let me just say that after I got everything working and I saw what the card
is capable of, I have been VERY happy.  The rendition version of Indycar 2
is stunning!  I'm sure everyone will not have the problems that I had
installing it so I would have to recomend this card!  I hope that some of
this helped!